A little bit of drama over on Table 3 where the floor was called to deal with a situation caused by Emilliano Bono.
Nikolay Losev had raised to 23,000 from under the gun and when the action folded back to Bono in the small blind there was some confusion as to whether he had announced his intention to raise or not. He said not but Melanie Weisner said that he definitely said the word raise regardless of how he said it.
The floor told Bono that if it was his turn to act and he said the word raise then he had to raise, so he did just that and made it 50,000 to play, but he was not very happy about it. The big blind folded and Losev made the call.
Flop: - Both players checked
Turn: - "BET!" Bono almost shouted sarcastically, before adding "I am strong! You fold!"
Losev did just that and as he did, Bono turned over . Maybe he will calm down during the break
Ludovic Marguerat raised, and excitable and still short-stacked Italian Emiliano Bono shoved from the big blind. Marguerat called, and the shouting commenced once more.
Marguerat:
Bono:
Bono: "Aiii papa! [Italian Italian Italian] the flop!!!"
Board: (Bono: "SET!!!")
"Roma! Roma! I want your chips," (he pronounced it, "sheep,") "You call, ok."
Bono is at 230,000 now. Marguerat is at 185,000 and doesn't look happy at all.
Perhaps because of his brush with the felt just now, emotions were running high in Emilliano Bono, who moved his final 36k all in preflop only to find the button calling and the small blind Nicolas Babel re-raising a further 116k.
This got rid of the first caller, leaving an ecstatic Bono to thank Babel profusely: "Nice RAISE! Thank you for the raise!"
Bono:
Babel:
Flop: "Go Go Go," Bono warmed up...
Turn: "Go ROMA!" he found his stride. "Double! Triple! ROMA!"
Despite the flush draw, Babel missed the river and Bono, with a handkerchief on his head, finished off with, "Napolina! Thank you for the re-raise!" and sat back down with 110k+.
From short-stack to out, for Liviu Ignat. The high-stakes pro has gone from above average to picking up €11,000 in the course of half of this level, and Andrea Ferrari adds a couple of hundred thousand to his stack in the process.
Heads up, Ferrari called when Ignat moved all in over the top of his preflop raise with . Ignat held but his lone overcard was immediately crushed to a pulp by the flop!
Rejoicing already in a torrent of laughing Italian, Ferrari held over the river and Ignat took the direct train to Bustville.
Nicolas Babel has just doubled up through Emilliano Bono but both players are still short stacked.
Babel found himself all in against the namesake of U2's front man holding against the . The flop gave Bono an open-ended straight draw to go with his two overcards but none of his outs materilised when the turn and river came down and respectively.
Babel is now on 146,000 whilst Bono slips to 51,000
So said Rasmus Nielsen when the first thing Jan Bendik did upon moving to his table was to eliminate Petr Targa, holding vs. Targa's . Two board Aces later, and he'd instantly dropped the number of players on his new table back to seven.
The hero of the press room, Ronan Monfort, has finally succumbed. After a day of admirable grinding, he finally pushed from the small blind for eight big blinds with and got called by the gent in the big blind holding . Monfort failed to spike and goes home with €10,000 - not bad for his first ever EPT. We'll definitely be seeing more of Mr. Monfort at another EPT soon, whether in the press room or at the felt.
Tobias Reinkemeier's Main Event is over as he been eliminated in 40th place. We don't have the details but it appears a Sergio Sanchez is the man who is responsible.